Broxa, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Broxa, a township in Hackness parish, in the N.R. Yorkshire, 4½ miles NW of Scarborough. Acreage, 533; population, 41. Lord Derwent is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Hackness | |
Liberty | Whitby-Strand | |
Poor Law union | Scarborough | |
Riding | North |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Broxa from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Broxa are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online: